You can use Disk Utility to encrypt removable drives to prevent other people from accessing your data, but that requires you to navigate Disk Utility’s many options, menus, and buttons. In Mountain ...

I have a fresh install coming shortly. I am pondering encrypting the OS drive albeit I am not entirely sure what that achieves for me security wise on my desktop (with all the other drives not ...

Hard drive encryption is nothing but the organized corruption of data. The technology hit the spotlight in 2006 when the infamous VA laptop was stolen which contained personally identifiable ...

Companies relying on self-encrypting drives (SEDs) to secure data stored on their employees’ laptops should be aware that this technology is not immune to attack and should carefully consider whether ...

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I have an older Dell Inspiron 1750 laptop. I replaced its original spinning HDD with a brand new Samsung SSD 850 EVO drive, that was advertised as supporting hardware encryption. So now I'm trying to ...

Google Drive is generally very secure, as Google encrypts your files while they're being transferred and stored. However, Google can undo the encryption with encryption keys, meaning that your files ...

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies today announced availability of what it is touting as the highest-capacity, highest-performing notebook hard drive. The Travelstar 7K200 doubles the capacity of its ...

The BitLocker encryption method and Cipher strength you set as default is only applied when you turn on BitLocker for a drive. Any changes you make will not affect a drive already encrypted by ...

The ease of use, portability, and convenience of USB drives have been proven to increase productivity. However, a BYOD (bring your own device) policy is a critical threat to any organization, even ...